Guest guest Posted December 6, 2000 Report Share Posted December 6, 2000 Members: As I have mentioned I have an 8 year old boy - - diagnosed with IGAN. Recently, he had his biannual checkup . We did receive some good news in that his protein samples came back negative - which after his initial readings of a year ago when hematuria first appeared, there has been an obvious decline. He still does have microscopic hematuria though - and perhaps Pierre would have specific info on hematuria correlations. Will did have his tonsils removed as he had severe tonsillitus throughout his childhood - and so far there seems to be hope that the tonsillectomy is helping in at the least the relief of throat infections as he has not had any more sore throats since the procedure. And as his protein count is now negative - we can only think that the tonsilectomy has been a good move. A Dr. Brewer of Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston emphasis on a cure of this disease is likely in the genome research that is moving forward in the medical world...... the way medicine looks at disease will be change dramatically from the way we now know to research - and the advances will most certainly involve understanding genetic histories.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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